Gustáv Wendrinský
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Gustáv Wendrinský (24 January 1923, Bratislava, Slovakia - 11 to 13 February 1945, Csobanka, Hungary) was an Slovak SS-Oberscharführer.
He destroyed 41 soviet tanks, which is a maximum number of tank demolition with one antitank gun during the second world war. Two of them he destroyed in close combat with Panzerfaust.
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- Gustáv Wendrinský - biela stránka slovenskej vojenskej histórie (Slovak)
- Gustáv Wendrinský
- V. Volka: SS-Hauptscharführer Gustáv Wendrinský, nositel Rytířského kříže z Bratislavy
Hi, my name is Vojtech Volko and Iam preparing an English translation of my biographical article at http://www.militaria.cz/ ...on a Slovak Knights Cross winner, SS- Hauptscharführer Gustáv Wendrinský who was a member of 8.SS-Kavallerie-Division "Florian Geyer" and at the time of his death the youngest member of the division to be decorated with K.C. My biography book of Gustáv Wendrinský will be finished in about 3 months and will be published /thus far/ in Czech language.